Word: climbing
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...trains depart each morning from opposite ends of the line and meet in the middle. One begins a rugged northeastern climb out of Chama, N.M., crosses two 100-ft.-high trestles and wends through the high point, Cumbres Pass (elevation 10,015 ft). The second locomotive fires up in Antonito, Colo., and chugs southwest. It threads through two 360-ft.-long tunnels, one of which was blasted out of 1.7 billion-year-old rock a dizzying 600 ft. above Toltec Gorge. You won't find a carload of snakes like the one Indiana Jones encountered. But do keep your eyes...
...burger to savor their victories this week and resist the temptation to rip each other's throat out. Who would have thought last summer that Bush would have the near death experience, or that Gore, in the course of flattening Bill Bradley, would manage to climb to a dead heat with Bush after lagging 17 points behind in January--and have even more money left over? After their long distraction, the two presumptive nominees finally get to concentrate on one another, and they are losing no time trying to define each other. But in the course of doing so, they...
...vision is almost lovely enough to obscure the enormous mountain Microsoft has to climb if it wants to plant its flag on the $7 billion games business. Sony stands astride this pile of cash like Gamezilla, with a 60% market share; 1 American household in 5 owns a PlayStation. The next-generation PlayStation 2 sold 980,000 units in Japan in record time; a rock-star-style arrival in the U.S. is scheduled for this fall. Sony's new machine also has the advantage of being backward-compatible, meaning you don't need to throw out all your old PlayStation...
...piece of advice to Dartmouth administrators: Get over it. It would be easy to take a morally superior position--yes, copying answers is cheating. But let's climb down from our ivory tower for a minute to examine reality. Imagine that it's 3 a.m., the night before your big CS problem set is due. You check the website to see if anything has been posted on the discussion page, and behold, the professor has posted the solution to the problem! You check the solution and immediately recognize the flaw in your program that has been plaguing you all night...
...their party's nomination, both Bradley and McCain will have to climb an uphill road. Bradley faces the challenge of reinvigorating a campaign that some have dismissed altogether. McCain must find a way to attract more support from within his party, since many of the upcoming primaries are open only to registered Republicans. But we urge Bradley and McCain supporters, particularly those who are tempted to believe that the primary race is all but over, to cast their vote tomorrow. The chance to participate in a primary election as competitive and as healthy as this one should not be foregone...